Former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef reportedly orders students not to vote for Shas
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel who sits on the rabbinical council of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, privately urged his students not to vote for Shas and called for the toppling of the right-wing coalition, according to a report Wednesday.Yosef denied the Haaretz report, while Shas characterized it as disrespecting the rabbi’s religious teachings. The party said it would “act with determination against the establishment of a left-wing government, whose entire purpose is to tear Judaism out of the state.”A source from within Shas told Haaretz, however: “The moment this is published [Yosef] will of course deny it, but in conversations at home he says it clearly.”The report cited unnamed sources from among the rabbi’s students, who said: “The rabbi demanded I promise I won’t vote for Shas, that I’ll ask my family not to vote for the party, and that I’ll publicize his request as…
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef reportedly urged his students not to vote for the ultra-Orthodox Shas party and called for the “toppling of the right-wing coalition,” according to a Haaretz report. Yosef, who sits on Shas’s rabbinical council, allegedly expressed disillusionment after the right-wing bloc failed to pass a law codifying military service exemptions for ultra-Orthodox men. Sources among his students claimed he demanded they promise not to vote for Shas and publicize his request, with one student quoting him saying, “The right hasn’t brought us anything. It’s only possible to come to arrangements with the left.” Yosef denied the report, while Shas characterized it as disrespecting his religious teachings.
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